Peraino, Kevin
Summary: A study of the sixteenth president's evolution as a foreign policy leader explores his role in America's rise to a world power, analyzing six distinct episodes that defined his foreign policy stance and enabled him to maintain a careful balance during the war years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM PERRichman, Sophia
Summary: A New York psychoanalyst relates her experiences in surviving the Holocaust as a young child, her life as a refugee, her immigration to the United States, and her efforts to cope with the trauma through relationships and writing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haworth Press 2002
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 RichmSabbage, Sophie
Summary: The author shares how her diagnosis with late-stage lung cancer at the age of forty-eight started her on a journey of healing and renewal, and counsels readers on directing their own treatment and maintaining their humanity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A Plume Book 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 SABAdriansen, Sophie
Summary: "This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young Black and poor woman living in an American marked by segregation. This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement. This is the story of a long career, that of a pianist and singer as talented as determined. This is the story of Nina Simone, a unique artist, role model, and inspiration for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 SIMONE, NINA ADRLambda, Sophie
Summary: "Part memoir, part self-help book, So Much For Love offers hilarious and empathetic advice on how to survive a relationship with a master manipulator. Sophie had always been cynical about love--until she meets Marcus. His affection and doting praise melt away her defenses. The beginning of their relationship was a whirlwind romance, but over time she finds herself on uneven footing. Marcus...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 LAMAlikhan, Salima
Summary: During World War II, Germany's Nazi forces stormed across Europe, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and others. In 1942, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl formed a student-led, anti-Nazi organization called the White Rose. Their goal: distribute informational pamphlets to draw public attention to Nazi crimes--and, ultimately, stop them. Scholl's activism and resistance eventually led to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCHJohnson, Sophie Lucido
Summary: "Sophie Lucido Johnson gets a lot of questions when she tells people that she's polyamorous. Many Love is an intimate look at this often misunderstood practice: its history, its misconceptions, and Sophie's personal transformation from serial monogamist to proud polyamorist. After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents' forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, SOPHIE LUCIDO JOHHagen, Sofie
Summary: In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fat-phobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife. From shame and sex to airplane seats, love and getting stuck in public toilets, Sofie provides practical tips for readers--drawing wisdom from other Fat Liberation champions along the way. Part memoir, part social...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 4th Estate 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HAGBardoe, Cheryl
Summary: "A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J921 GERSmith, Matthew Clark
Summary: Shares the life of the first female to work as a professional balloonist, making more than sixty ascents until 1819, she became the first woman to die in an aviation accident.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLAMaggs, Sam
Summary: "Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Vieweg, Klaus
Summary: "A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most famous man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Friederich Wilhelm Hegel. Hegel, the most famous figure in modern philosophy, arguably its father, believed that to philosophize is to learn to live freely. He was slow and cautious in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gaet's
Summary: "In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAEHood, Susan
Summary: Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women--each paired with a noteworthy female artist--to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada's Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Children's Books 2018